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Your birthday

I don't know if you are too good to be true,
but you exist, and that's enough for me,
since you exist for me at least,
so that I at least can bear some witness
of your beauty and maturity
and how they only seem to steadily increase,
as if instead of growing older you grew younger
towards ever more accentuated youth,
that only seems more stable with the years.
If youth thus could persist in growing younger,
that would be the evidence of how the spirit
rules the body and decides its state and not the contrary.
Let me thus continue loving you
to thus increase the power of your spirit
so that you can steadily continue growing younger
as long as I am here to love you
and as long as I shall stay alive.

Poetry by Christian Lanciai